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Two Louisville Free Public Library branches are among the prettiest in the South and even the world, according to these two magazines. The Main Library, 301 York St., was recognized as one of ...
The Main Reading Room View of the Thomas Jefferson Building's west façade The Great Hall and a view of the building's first and second floors, featuring Minerva mosaic. John L. Smithmeyer and Paul J. Pelz won the competition for the architectural plans of the library in 1873.
Edward L. Bader, mayor of Atlantic City from 1924 to 1927, led the initiative to acquire the land for Convention Hall, now Boardwalk Hall, and construction was underway at the time of his death. [8] The hall, designed by the architectural firm Lockwood Greene, was built during 1926–1929. The main hall measures 456 by 310 feet (139 by 94 m).
For all these reasons, the historian David McCullough has described the Boston Public Library as one of the five most important libraries in the United States, the others being the federal Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, and the university libraries of Harvard and Yale.
The George Peabody Library is a library connected to the Johns Hopkins University, [1] focused on research into the 19th century. It was formerly the Library of the Peabody Institute of music in the City of Baltimore, and is located on the Peabody campus at West Mount Vernon Place in the Mount Vernon-Belvedere historic cultural neighborhood north of downtown Baltimore, Maryland.
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